From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754326AbYI3B4f (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:56:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752573AbYI3B40 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:56:26 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60430 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752401AbYI3B4Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:56:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:56:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jiri Kosina cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , jesse.brandeburg@intel.com Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > Intel is working with us on tracking down and resolving the issue, but > this is not going as well as one would like to see (one attempt, one card > with completely hosed EEPROM contents ... and restoring the contents is > not *that* trivial). What's the magic to trigger it? I've got a laptop with that e1000e chip in it, and am obviously running a recent kernel on it. Do people have a handle on it? Is it actually verified to be kernel-related, and not related to the X server etc? Linus